Despite saving hundreds of dollars and even making new friends, none of the people who agreed to ditch their car for this Brisbane experiment wanted to go car-free permanently. This is why.
  • Panini@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    22·
    3 months ago

    That was sorta the intended result here, to emphasize that to move away from cars without heavily sacrificing their QOL, most people need better public transportation and non-car options than their city is currently providing them. So the city needs to make changes to reduce dependency.

    • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
      53·
      3 months ago

      sure, but we deliberately chose a place we didn’t need a car, across the road from Harbour town on the Good Coast, never had an issue with traffic. A friend chose to live in bumfuck on the other side of the Freeway and complained endlessly about traffic.